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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Fatal Quarrel. Murder and Suicide Disagreement with Sister-in-law. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 5

Following a disagreement concerning a business matter a man named Williams shot his sister-in-law. Mrs. J. Maclean, at her farm at Murraydale, near Swan…

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S.A. Police Force Desired Reforms Refused. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 5

Holding that it would be an indecent political act to grant their requests just before the elections, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Jelly) refused to comply with the…

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Scene in Coroner's Court Hobart Tragedy Inquiry. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 5

The inquiry concerning the death of Lionel Schultz, the cripple victim of the Domain tragedy last month, was concluded by the Coroner who reserved his…

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Little Girl Killed Car Driver Charged with Manslaughter. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 March 1927 · page 5

Muriel Hai[?] 5 of Rozelle was knocked down and killed by a motor car yesterday. The police preferred a charge of…

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Heart Failure Lismore Police Sergeant's Death. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 March 1927 · page 4

Police Sergeant J. J. McCra[?], 53, in charge of Lismore police, died suddenly of heart failure yesterday morning He had his breakfast and went to [?]…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 4

Before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, a young man, Edward Wilson appeared to answer a charge of having at…

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Coramba Police Court Smart Work by Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 3

On the 10th instant, an unknown man stole a suit of clothes from a tent at Glenreagh, and shortly after was seen boarding the Dorrigo train with a parcel…

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A Trespassing Cow Case in the Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 4

An action, in which Robert Brindle, of Grafton, proceeded against John David Ford on a claim of [?]5 for damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff's crops…

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Theft of Wood Blocks. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 5

At Newton Po[?]e Court to-day J[?]hn Johnson Carter was charged with having stolen a quantity of wood blocks, the property of the Main Roads Board…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 4

The quarterly report of the Licensing Inspector (Sergeant A. G. McAlpin) was again under review in the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday by the Licensing…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 4

In the Grafton small Debts Court yesterday before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., there was no appearance for William Garland to answer the claim of Osma…

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Murder Alleged Charge Against Brother. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 4

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Albert Feltham, 32, was charged with murdering his brother Sidney Frank Feltham…

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Body in Bush Police Arrest Farmer. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 5

The dead body of [?] unknown man was found in the bush at Nungar[?]. The head was buried in the sand, and a wound at the base of the skull suggested he had…

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Death Sentence Brothers Fatal Fight One Guilty of Murder "Fiendish Brutality." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 5

At the Central Criminal court today Albert Feltham, 32, was found guilty of murdering his brother, Frank Feltham…

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To Pull a Horse Jockey Offered £50 Allegations in District Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 5

An allegation that he had been offered [?]50 to 'pul' a horse was made by a jockey in a case in the District Court to-day…

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Native Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 March 1927 · page 8

An illustration of devotion to duty on the part of the armed native constabulary of Papua has been reported by the Lieutenant-Governor to the Minister…

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Neglected Baby Parents Sent to Gaol. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 March 1927 · page 5

George Fayle, 52, and Jean Hill, 39, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of having wilfully neglected a 10-months-old baby…

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Obscene Behavior Young Man Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 March 1927 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day William Do[?]ey, 22, laborer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for obscene behavior…

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Brutal Assault Man Punches Woman Victim in Hospital. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 March 1927 · page 5

May Munns, a young woman, employed in a Newcastle hotel, was decoyed from her room last night by information that a visitor was waiting for her downstairs,…

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Coats Off in Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 March 1927 · page 4

So oppressive were conditions in the Brisbane Supreme Court last Thursday, that one of the jurymen engaged in the action Raine v. Kenna and another…

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